A Technical History of Apple's Operating Systems

[der Mouse]

> and people get especially weirded out when you count on your fingers
> in binary (up to 1023).  Just reaching the number 4 upsets them.

I wonder why. :-)

A fellow sysadmin and I play pool approximately every two weeks, and
for the last two or three sessions we have developed a system of
calling most shots[%] entirely by hand, no voice.  This is relevant
here because it is binary-based, with the four fingers of one hand
being the four bits necessary to identify a ball number 1-15.

[%] We play that all shots must be called in detail - though if there
    is a really obvious choice of shot and you line up for it without
    saying anything, the call is taken to be "the shot I'm obviously
    lining up for".

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